Chemical abortions (abortion pills) kill human beings and increase health risks for women. Retail pharmaceutical sale of abortion pills is deadly for unborn children and potentially harmful for women. 

Human beings begin their lives at conception, according to established scientific consensus. Over 328,770 unborn children died by chemical abortion in 2020 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Guttmacher Institute. 

Science demonstrates: Abortion pills are four times riskier than surgical abortions, and elevate the likelihood of health complications for women and girls. Medication abortions are over fifty percent (50%) more likely than surgical abortions to result in a visit to an  emergency department within thirty (30) days post-abortion; impacting one in twenty (20) females. 

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The risks of chemical abortion include hemorrhaging, fever,  incomplete abortion, and other complications such as, infection, endometritis, pelvic inflammatory disease, on-going pregnancy, and uterine rupture. More than ten percent (10%) of women who undergo chemical abortions need follow up treatment for incomplete or failed abortions. 

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The dangers of medication abortion increase as the embryo grows, and are potentially lethal for women and girls experiencing ectopic pregnancies.  On average, almost forty percent (40%) of women ingesting abortion pills during their second trimester of pregnancy require surgery.  NY fails to require ultrasounds occur pre-chemical abortions, the surest, most reliable and accurate method for determining the gestational age of an unborn child or whether a pregnancy is ectopic.

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Further, simply dispensing chemical abortions, without adequate safeguards, also impedes the ability to detect and address any coercion that may have been exerted on a woman to abort her child. Studies show a sizable percentage of women who undergo abortion are coerced to do so by violent intimate partners and/or sex traffickers.